International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis: Volume 3 Issue 3

Access to housing finance by the urban poor: The case of WAT‐SACCOS in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Alphonce Kyessi, Germain Furaha

Any attempt to improve housing quality goes concurrently with improvement of income level and with economic development. The purpose of this paper is to assess the viability of…

Mixed‐income housing development strategy: Perspective on Cosmo City, Johannesburg, South Africa

George Okechukwu Onatu

High rates of urbanization have concentrated housing needs in urban areas. This has resulted in a large‐scale housing and service backlog. The rapid growth in housing demand…

The Ghanaian transaction‐based residential indices

Wilfred K. Anim‐Odame, Tony Key, Simon Stevenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide technically robust indicators of housing market performance from the records held by the Ghana Land Valuation Board, through the…

Lessons learned from in situ upgrading and eradication of informal settlement in Gauteng Province in South Africa

Clinton Ohls Aigbavboa, Wellington D. Thwala

The purpose of this paper is to give an insight into lessons learned so far on the in situ upgrading and eradication of informal settlements in South Africa. This is with a view…

Housing development finance through cooperative societies: The case of Ogbomoso, Nigeria

Matthew Oluwole Oyewole

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of cooperative societies to housing finance for the urban low income group in Ogbomoso, Oyo state of Nigeria. This is…

Medium‐term property rights and urban poverty in Minna

Isaac Ayodele Olatunji

The purpose of this paper is to examine the medium‐term tenure option, in capital valuation terms, through an empirical study of 232 households in 39 tenement properties in…

Introduction from the Editor - Vol. 3 No. 3

Professor Richard Reed